YAL+Language+Connection

This wiki page features resources for considerations and connections between language and YAL, and builds upon our Class 8 reading of and work with B&H Ch. 5 "The Language Connection." Please add any resources you feel would be helpful to you and your peers.

[|The Language and Life Project] -- housed at NC State

[|Talking Black in America] -- website describing the award-winning documentary; NC State Linguistics Scholar, Dr. Walt Wolfram, is Executive Producer

[|Voices of North Carolina Dialect Awareness Curriculum]

PBS American Promise Video: [|Idris Code Switches]

PBS "Do You Speak American?" Documentary: Episode 3 Clip on Code Switching (watch from 11:24 to 15:04)
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 * OUR IDEAS FOR LANGUAGE CONNECTIONS TO YAL SHORT STORIES OR NOVELS**
 * and Ideas for Applications of Literary Theory to YAL [Class 8 Activity]**


 * YAL Short Story "Infinity" by Sarah Dessen**


 * YAL Short Story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros**


 * YAL Short Story "Boys and Girls" by Sandra Cisneros**


 * YAL Short Story "Infinity" by Sarah Dessen -- literary theory connections**